Christopher Martell,
Ph.D., ABPP is a Psychologist who is licensed in Washington, Wisconsin
and New York. He has conducted workshops in behavioral activation
around the world. Dr. Martell was in practice in Seattle for 23 years.
Dr. Martell now focuses on training students and professionals in
behavioral activation, integrative behavioral couples therapy and
cognitive-behavioral interventions.

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You can find information about several of Dr. Martell's books on this site, including:

Christopher Martell prepares for a talk on CBT with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where he also conducted a two-day lecture on behavioral treatment of depression.

Upcoming events/presentations

Christopher Martell will conduct a workshop on treating Depressed Adolescents with Behavioral Activation with his colleagues Elizabeth McCauley, Kelly Scloredt and Gretchen Gudmundsen at the ABCT convention in San Diego, CA, November 2017. Details can be found at www.abct.org

Dr.
Martell will also present a two-day workshop on behavioral activation
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on December 13 & 14, 2017

Recent presentations

Dr. Martell conducted a workshop on Behavioral Activation Therapy in April, 2017 at the annual convention of the Iowa Psychological Association and for the Massachusetts Psychological Association in June 2017.

A 2006 issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
published the results of a remarkable clinical trial that showed that
Behavioral Activation performed as well as a standard Cognitive-Behavior
Therapy protocol. With these results, people want to know more about
BA.

In 1996 the late Neil S. Jacobson and colleagues compared BA and
cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression. While cognitive therapy was
a much more complex treatment, the researchers found no significant
differences in benefits between the treatments. Following that study
Jacobson and colleagues launched the largest ever single site depression
treatment study: they compared BA, Cognitive Therapy, and
Antidepressant medications. The results: BA outperformed cognitive
therapy in the acute treatment phase for moderately to severely
depressed adults, and performed as well as antidepressant medication